Archive for the ‘law’ Category
Jennifer A. Hamilton, Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts. New York: Routledge, 2009. The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom […]
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Renisa Mawani, Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009). Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating how crossracial encounters in one colonial contact zone — late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia — inspired juridical racial […]
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This from the ABC: The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is prosecuting the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust for failing to control the rabbit population in the Deen Maar Indigenous protected area. The DPI alleges the trust has not complied with a land management notice. The matter has been adjourned to be heard in the Warrnambool Magistrates […]
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On the cards for a couple of years now, the South African government is (apparently) preparing to enact its Expropriation Bill. Yolandi Groenewald, from the Mail and Guardian: On Tuesday Beeld reported that Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson had proposed a new empowerment charter for agriculture requiring farmers to sell a 40% share of their farms and land […]
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Mark Hickford, ‘”Vague Native Rights to Land”: British Imperial Policy on Native Title and Custom in New Zealand, 1837-53’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38, 2 (2010): 175 – 206. Abstract: What is often referred to as a common law doctrine of aboriginal or customary title neither underpinned imperial policies towards Maori property rights […]
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Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2010): Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America: a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and […]
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ngapuhi case begins
A while ago I got whisper of an excitingly unique Maori claim launched by the Ngapuhi. Today I learn the case is getting under way today, via NZHerald: The Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry is unique in that iwi members will argue that their ancestors did not cede sovereignty when the Treaty was signed […]
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A snippet from John and Jean Comaroff’s — as always, gripping — opening essay of their edited collection, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Chicago 2006): …there has certainly been an explosion of law-oriented nongovernmental organizations in the postcolonial world: lawyers for human rights, both within and without frontiers; legal resourcecenters and aid clinics; voluntary […]
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Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
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